Janet Fouts

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

This is especially true when you are on multiple networks. Think of your online conversations as an aggregate whole and not just one network at a time. You can’t mention activism and social media without James Karl Buck coming up. His tweet activated his social network and word spread quickly.

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Social media- it’s not about the ratings

Janet Fouts

If all you hear about are their scores and their number of followers on 100 social networks, beware. They’re not taking one score as gospel, they’re using several in an aggregate form to gather information about individuals. Getting good scores may be all they’re good at.

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Twitter for Lawyers

Janet Fouts

As with most social networks, the most important things you can do are listen first and be yourself. Here’s a post about Twylah , a twitter aggregator that can show you what your Tweets look like from a 10,000 foot level and other people who are tweeting about similar keywords.

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Need a little Social Discipline?

Janet Fouts

I follow almost 4,000 people on Twitter , over 1500 on Linkedin , and more on Facebook , Google+ , blogs , forums, a zillion social networks, wikis and more. How much aggregate time did it take? Now look at social media where you can break the ice and get that initial conversation10, 20,100 or thousands at a time.

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